Carbon nanotubes as a novel tool for vaccination against infectious diseases and cancer

Due to their unusual properties, carbon nanotubes have been extensively employed in electronics, nanotechnology and optics, amongst other. More recently, they have also been used as vehicles for drug and antigen delivery, the latter being a novel immunization strategy against infectious diseases and...

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Autores principales: Gottardi, Riccardo, Douradinha, Bruno
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3846653/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24025216
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-3155-11-30
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description Due to their unusual properties, carbon nanotubes have been extensively employed in electronics, nanotechnology and optics, amongst other. More recently, they have also been used as vehicles for drug and antigen delivery, the latter being a novel immunization strategy against infectious diseases and cancer. Here we discuss the potential of carbon nanotubes as an antigen delivery tool and suggest further directions in the field of vaccination.
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spelling pubmed-38466532013-12-03 Carbon nanotubes as a novel tool for vaccination against infectious diseases and cancer Gottardi, Riccardo Douradinha, Bruno J Nanobiotechnology Review Due to their unusual properties, carbon nanotubes have been extensively employed in electronics, nanotechnology and optics, amongst other. More recently, they have also been used as vehicles for drug and antigen delivery, the latter being a novel immunization strategy against infectious diseases and cancer. Here we discuss the potential of carbon nanotubes as an antigen delivery tool and suggest further directions in the field of vaccination. BioMed Central 2013-09-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3846653/ /pubmed/24025216 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-3155-11-30 Text en Copyright © 2013 Gottardi and Douradinha; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Carbon nanotubes as a novel tool for vaccination against infectious diseases and cancer
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3846653/
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